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freemen of their district to consult for the common good, give instructions to their Representatives, or to apply to the Legislature for redress of grievances by address, petition, or...

Constitution of Frankland. 19
law, act, or resolve whatsoever respecting religion or the spiritual service we owe to God; but shall confine themselves wholly to matter purely civil.
Sect. 25. Laws for the encouraging...

Constitution of Frankland.
Sect. 41. The Legislature hereafter to be chosen shall provide that marriages, in this commonwealth, be regularly and solemnly celebrated, between one man and one woman, before free and single.
Sect. 42. That this...

Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...

Circular directing commanding officers to forward "without delay complete reports of the Killed wounded and taken prisoners of their respective commands from the time the enemy crossed the Tenn[essee] River to the 10th of October." Order was signed...

"A map of the British American plantations, extending from Boston in New England to Georgia; including all the back settlements in the respective provinces as far as the Mississippi." An exceptional map of the American colonies and backcountry...

An Act for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the Territory of the United States of
America South of the River Ohio.
Acts passed at the second session of the General Assembly of the Territory of the United States of America south of the river...

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ARTICLE III.
Executive Department.
Section 1. The Supreme Executive power of this State shall be vested in a Governor.
Section 2. The Governor shall be chosen by the electors of the members of the General Assembly, at the time and...

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Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Section 13. No member of Congress, or person holding any office under the United States, or this State, shall execute the office of Governor.
Section 14. When any officer, the right of whose...

We do likewise authorize and require the Governors and Commanders in Chief of all our said Colonies upon the Continent of North America to grant the like Quantities of Land, and upon the same conditions, to such reduced Officers of our Navy of like...

Sect. 6th He shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons after conviction
except in cases of impeachment.
Section 7th He shall at stated times receive a compensation for his Services which shall not be increased or diminished during the period...

Nations or Tribes of Indians with whom We are connected, and who live under our Protection, should not be molested or disturbed in the Possession of such Parts of Our Dominions and Territories as, not having been ceded to or purchased by Us, are...

shall be a law unless sent back within three days after their next meeting.
Section Members of the General Council and all officers Executive & Judicial shall be bound by oath to support the Constitution of this Nation and to perform the duties of...

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of law knowledge, for the trial and determination thereof. The Legislature may by general laws make provision that special Judges may be appointed, to hold any Courts the Judge of which shall be unable or fail to attend or sit; or to hear...

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the qualified voters at the first election for any of the County Officers.
Section 3. There shall be a treasurer or Treasurers and a Comptroller of the Treasury appointed for the State, by the joint vote of both Houses of the General...

The party shall nevertheless in all cases be liable to Indictment, trial, Judgment
and punishment according to law.
Article 5th
Sect. 1st The judicial power of the State shall be vested in such Superior and inferior Courts of Law and equity, as the...

to the age of thirty years, nor shall any person continue to exercise the duties of any of the said offices after he shall have attained, to the age of seventy years.
Art. 6. The Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, shall be appointed by...

Art. 10. No Judge shall sit on the trial of any cause, where the parties shall be connected with him by affinity, or consanguinity, except by consent of the parties. In case all the Judges of the Supreme Court, shall be entrusted in the event, if...

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of Macon County, be taken in the formation of said new County: Out of fractions of Grainger and Jefferson Counties but no line of such new County shall include any part of Grainger County north of the Holston River; nor shall any line...

of any cause, where the parties shall be connected with him by affinity or
consanguinity except by consent of parties. In case all the Judges of the Superior Court shall be interested in the Event of any Cause, or related to all or either of the...